As you have likely heard by now, classes have been cancelled tomorrow for the CTU Teacher Strike. It is unclear when we will return. We assigned homework as normal discussing how items that are due/scheduled for “tomorrow” will be due/taking place on whatever day we return to class. Hopefully, that will be very soon but for the meantime we also discussed taking advantage of this time to work on the reading and social studies projects. We continued work on geography projects in class today, and the kids got a lot of good research done. I also passed out planning sheets to help the kids work out ideas for their project choices. Everyone brought home these papers as well as their research and assignment packets today. These tools should help guide your 4th grader through their work. My hope is that we are not out long enough to warrant extending the due date, but we will certainly change plans as needed.

We also took time to finish all book report meetings that any students had signed up for. Again, I was so excited to hear about many ideas and plans that are underway. Hopefully our conversations left students in a great place to continue their work. A copy of the project assignment sheet can always be found by clicking the “Projects” link under the “Classroom Information” on the right side of this page.

Lastly, I will not have access to my email until we return to school. I hope to be back very soon!